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Deadline Extended! Call for Applications: 2019-2020 Graduate Assistant Positions

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:44:21 +0000

Deadline Extended! Call for Applications: 2019-2020 Graduate Assistant Positions Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/06/2019 - 09:44

The Program in Jewish Studies invites applications for two Graduate Assistant Positions for the 2019-2020 academic year. Please see the details below.

**Classes TBA. Students may be selected for only one position.**

**The extended deadline for all application submissions is Friday, April 12, 2019 by 5:00PM.**

�鶹��Ѱ��graduate students from all backgrounds and disciplines are welcome to apply.

Two Graduate Assistant Positions

The Program in Jewish Studies invites applications for two Graduate Assistant positions during the 2019-2020 academic year, one for Fall 2019 and one for Spring 2020. These are a 30% appointment for 12 hours per week. The positions carry a tuition remission for 6 credit hours along with a monthly stipend. The stipend amount is determined by the Graduate School and is subject to change. (Funding for the 2018-2019 academic year was $6,435.44 divided over five months.)

The responsibilities of the GA may include:

attending class sessions
leading discussions
holding office hours
meeting with students
grading assignments
other duties specified by the instructor

Graduate students wishing to apply for this position must meet all conditions specified by the Graduate School. In addition, applicants should submit the following materials:

a CV
an unofficial transcript
a statement of up to 500 words outlining any prior work with the Program in Jewish Studies, degree progress to date, any prior teaching experience (at �鶹��Ѱ��Boulder or elsewhere), and any academic background relevant to the course.
a letter of support from your faculty advisor

All components of the application -- with the exception of the advisor letter -- should be submitted electronically as one PDF file to CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu. The advisor letter should be sent separately to CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu by the faculty member.

**Please read the important information below about student overloads.**

The extended deadline for submission is Friday, April 12, 2019 by 5:00PM.

Important: About Student Overloads

Per university policy, graduate students cannot work beyond 50% time (20 hours per week) in their combined on-campus work without permission from the Graduate School. The maximum number of hours students can work on campus is 25 hours (62.5% appointment). Petitions for beyond these hours will not be approved by the Graduate School. If receiving a GA or GRA position would make you exceed 50% time, you must inform Jewish Studies in your application of your intention to submit a "Petition for Over 50% Appointments for Graduate Students." Please note that you will need to submit this petition to the graduate school after you receive the position (not prior), and it must be reviewed and signed by your academic faculty advisor. Approval of your petition is not guaranteed.

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Scholarship, Fellowship, & Research Opportunities in Jewish Studies – Fall 2018

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:10:34 +0000

Scholarship, Fellowship, & Research Opportunities in Jewish Studies – Fall 2018 Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/10/2018 - 12:10

Each academic year, the Program in Jewish Studies offers a number of research, scholarship, and fellowship opportunities for �鶹��Ѱ��Boulder undergraduate and graduate students. Follow the links below for more information on how to apply to our Fall opportunities!

Jump to Undergraduate Opportunities Jump to Graduate Opportunities

Undergraduate Opportunities

Freshman & Sophomore Scholarship

Fall Deadline to Apply: January 4, 2019

Each semester, the Program in Jewish Studies awards a $500 tuition scholarship to a freshman or sophomore who as declared a Jewish Studies Major or Minor and has the highest GPA in the pool of applicants.

Freshman & Sophomore Scholarship

PHAJ Collections Undergraduate Scholarship

Deadline to Apply: January 4, 2019

The Post-Holocaust American Judaism (PHAJ) Collections Undergraduate Scholarship provides a �鶹��Ѱ��undergraduate student a $1,000 undergraduate scholarship to complete an original research project during the Spring semester using one or more of the PHAJ Collections.

PHAJ Collections Undergraduate Scholarship

Research in Jewish Studies: How, What Why? – Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

Deadline to Apply: January 4, 2019

This Spring 2019, Jewish Studies' UROP,Research in Jewish Studies: How, What, Why?, will acquaint undergraduate students with the skills to conduct high level, independent, and interdisciplinary research and synthesize their findings into a successful final project. This program allows undergraduate students to enhance their learning experience, improve their ability to create and execute original research, and impress both future employers and potential graduate school admissions committees.

Research in Jewish Studies: How, What, Why?

Questions about undergraduate opportunities? 
Please email Professor Samuel Boyd, Director of Undergraduate Studies, at Samuel.Boyd@colorado.edu.

Graduate Funding Opportunities

Barry & Sue Baer Graduate Fellowship

Deadline for research travel, conferences, and projects between November 2018 and May 2019: November 2, 2018

The Barry and Sue Baer Graduate Fellowship supports graduate students from all disciplines and backgrounds as they conduct research, produce creative works, and address scholarly gatherings around the globe.

Barry & Sue Baer Graduate Fellowship

PHAJ Collections Graduate Fellowship

Fall Deadline to Apply: November 9, 2018

The Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Graduate Research Fellowship provides support to a �鶹��Ѱ��Boulder graduate student to conduct research in the CU Post-Holocaust American Judaism (PHAJ) Collections during the spring semester. The Fellow will work with librarians and archivists to produce an original research paper or project using one or more of the PHAJ collections.

PHAJ Graduate Fellowship

Questions about graduate opportunities? 
Please email Professor Beverly Weber, Director of Graduate Studies, at Beverly.Weber@colorado.edu.

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Student Research in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archives

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 19:15:08 +0000

Student Research in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archives Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/11/2018 - 13:15

The Program in Jewish Studies and the University Libraries Special Collections, Archives, & Preservation offers a number of fellowship and student work opportunities in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections. The PHAJ Collections focus on Judaism and the Jewish-American experience from roughly the late 1940s to the present. The material collected aims to shed light on the religious, cultural, and social movements of American Judaism. Both graduate and undergraduate students currently work on a variety of projects in the PHAJ Collections. Check out our awesome students below!

Learn More about the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections

Jacob Flaws

Jacob Flaws is a third-year PhD student in the History Department studying under Professor David Shneer. His research focuses on the death camp at Treblinka in Poland and the spatiality of the camp during its existence. Jacob is utilizing source materials from three witness groups – German perpetrators, Jewish survivors, and Polish witnesses – to triangulate and re-conceptualize the spatial reality of Treblinka.

Jacob been a graduate student employee in the PHAJ Collections throughout the 2017-2018 academic year. His favorite part of working in the archives is the daily opportunity to expand his knowledge on two levels – first, learning about how archives work and the processes by which collections are organized, categorized, and digitized; and second, learning from the collections' subject material itself, which often is beyond his own field and consistently opens up new research avenues and ideas.

Ellen Gostling

Ellen Gostling is currently an undergraduate pursuing a degree in International Affairs with a focus on Africa and the Middle East. She hopes to pursue a graduate degree in Comparative Religion and is passionate about ideological conflict, which drives her research in the PHAJ archives. Ellen says, "What I love about the archives is that beyond all of the fascinating materials we get to use, all of the people working in the archives are intelligent and passionate about what they are doing, and they have inspired me to think about things differently." Outside of academics, she is an officer for �鶹��Ѱ��Powerlifting.

Ellen was the inaugural recipient of the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections Undergraduate Scholarship this Spring 2018. She is currently conducting research in the collections and working on creating a digital resource and research guide related to conversion practices during and after the Holocaust framed by Harry W. Mazal’s own experience.

Jordan Klevdal

Jordan Klevdal is a second-year master's student in the English Department with a concentration in critical theory and gender studies. Her current research interests include textual materiality, manifestations of nostalgia in the 20th century, and the gendering of memory.

Jordan been a graduate student employee in the PHAJ Collections throughout the 2017-2018 academic year. Her favorite thing about working in the archives is that whenever you start looking through a collection, you stumble across tiny, unexpected details. These could be anything from a scribbled note to an editor, to a funny post-it note, to an uncatalogued snapshot. "These personal traces really can't be cataloged and so they always surface as a surprise and bring with them a certain joy of discovery," Jordan says, "They are part of what makes the archives so vibrant and, in a way, alive."

Adrian Auchterlorie

Adrian Auchterlorie is an undergraduate student currently working towards a BA in Political Science and a minor in English Literature.

Adrian currently holds an undergraduate student position in the PHAJ Collections conducting copyright research for the digitized audiocassetes in the Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi Papers. She determines potential copyright holders on digitized materials held in the collections, finds contact information for potential holders, and reaches out for confirmation and appropriate credit information. Adrian enjoys working in archives because there are so many treasures to be found and she always learns new things.

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Alumni Judd Schiffman Awarded 2017 NCECA Emerging Artist

Anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2017 16:19:29 +0000

Alumni Judd Schiffman Awarded 2017 NCECA Emerging Artist Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 05/30/2017 - 10:19

The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts has selected alumni Judd Schiffman as a 2017 Emerging Artist. Schiffman graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2015 with his MFA in Ceraminics and a Graduate Endorsement from Jewish Studies. He is now an adjunct professor of ceramics and department technician at Providence College in Rhode Island. Schiffman remakes personal mementos and family heirlooms into sculpture, provoking questions about identity, physical objects and the experiences that comprise an individual life.

You can view the presentation and website below.

Judd Schiffman's 2017 Emerging Artist Presentation Video

Judd Schiffman's Website

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Two New Major Concentrations in Jewish Studies

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 17:00:11 +0000

Two New Major Concentrations in Jewish Studies Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 04/20/2017 - 11:00

The Program in Jewish Studies is pleased to announce an exciting change to the structure of the Major in Jewish Studies!

Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Studies may now choose from one of the following two major concentrations:

Culture Intensive Concentration, in which students will pursue an in-depth study of Jewish culture.
Foreign Language Intensive Concentration, in which students will obtain advanced language skills in addition to considerable knowledge of Jewish culture.

These major concentrations will enable students to pursue the best Jewish Studies degree for them!

The Major in Jewish Studies is designed to help students develop the professional skills they need to become engaged global citizens and to obtain a job after graduation or pursue graduate studies. By studying the world through the lens of Jewish culture, history, literature, society, and thought from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, our students gain fundamental critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills.

All students of all backgrounds, Jewish and non-Jewish, may pursue a Major or Minor in Jewish Studies.

Learn more about Major in Jewish Studies

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Jewish Studies graduate student Judd Schiffman to present MFA thesis exhibition

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:32:40 +0000

Jewish Studies graduate student Judd Schiffman to present MFA thesis exhibition Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/30/2015 - 12:32

On behalf of Judd Schiffman, MFA student in Art and Art History at CU-Boulder, the Program in Jewish Studies is pleased to invite you to Schiffman's MFA thesis exhibition, BECAUSE IT COULD GET INFECTED, which opens on Friday, November 6th and runs until Thursday, November 19th, 2015.

Judd Schiffman’s studio research focuses on his own identity as it relates to contemporary Jewish American culture. His ceramic wall objects draw from diverse sources such as Seinfeld, Philip Roth, historical Jewish artifacts, family history and his own internal dialogue. In his thesis exhibition, BECAUSE IT COULD GET INFECTED, Schiffman will exhibit 15 handmade ceramic objects including a giant tube of Cortizone cream, a menorah, and a challah on wheels, each accompanied by a “spiel” which tells the story of the object,

BECAUSE IT COULD GET INFECTED
Exhibit Opening Friday, November 6th 2015 from 6:00PM - 8:00PM
The Jensdotter Project, 5470 Conestoga Ct, Boulder, CO (720) 256-3021

Judd received a 2015 Barry and Sue Baer Graduate Fellowship and a Menorah Jewish Arts Grant to support the creation of his exhibition.

More information about Schiffman's MFA Thesis Exhibition

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Jewish Studies Students Explore Jewish/Muslim Relations in Istanbul

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 23:28:13 +0000

Jewish Studies Students Explore Jewish/Muslim Relations in Istanbul Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/03/2015 - 17:28

From June 9-June 25, 2015, six �鶹��Ѱ��undergraduates and two graduate students joined Nan Goodman, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies and Professor of English, in a life changing experience--a global seminar in Istanbul about the multi-ethnic connections and cross currents between Jews and Muslims, past and present. With the generous support of the University Rector, Dr. Gülay Barbarosoğlu, students lived and studied on the Boğaziçi University campus, visited mosques, churches, and synagogues, attended religious services, spoke with community members of all faiths, and learned first-hand about the rich and heterogenous heritage of Turkey.

Their Turkish guide, Cem Durak, a Boğaziçi University student, made sure they had access to unusual sites and ceremonies. Cem is currently enrolled as a first year Master's student in the Religious Studies Program here at CU.

Students: Watch out for more information about our 2016 Global Seminar to Istanbul!

Learn More about the Global Seminar!

Student's Explore Turkey's Jewish/Muslim History

By Clint Talbott

Published in Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine. Click here for a link to the original article.

When you think of Istanbul, you might think about its historical status as the center of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, or about its present-day status as a city straddling two continents, Europe and Asia, in the Muslim country of Turkey.

But, “When people think about Istanbul, they don’t necessarily think about Jewish life,” says Nan Goodman.

Goodman, professor of English and director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the �鶹��Ѱ��, is starting to change that. This summer, she organized a university-sponsored global seminar in Turkey. It was called, “Jews & Muslims: The Multi-Ethnic History of Istanbul.”

Eight CU-Boulder students—six undergraduates and two graduate students—joined the seminar.

Turkey is the only Muslim country that has a thriving Jewish community, Goodman says. She first visited Turkey in 2011 as a visiting professor at Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University. She returned to Boğaziçi University in 2012 to give two lectures on human rights for the Humanities program and again last year as a Fulbright Fellow.

There, she got encouragement to launch this year’s global seminar. Her Turkish colleagues agreed that it would be “incredible to take students to Istanbul to study Jewish and Islamic connections, of which there are many.”

“My goal for the future is to institute some version of this class on a more permanent basis, in which students from �鶹��Ѱ��have the opportunity to really mingle with Boğaziçi students.”

The greatest payoff for the students was a first-hand experience of diversity and of the messiness and complexity of boundaries—“religious, disciplinary, cultural, you name it.”

“Seeing the connections rather than the separations between these forms of religious practice and belief and the lives of people in Turkey was invaluable,” Goodman says.

In recent years, Goodman’s scholarship has found surprising connections between the Puritans and the Ottoman Empire. That scholarly inquiry will be part of her forthcoming book, The Puritan Cosmopolis.

Noting that Puritans believed themselves to be the second incarnation of the Jews, Goodman describes her current research on the link between Islam, Judaism, and the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire was a center of the universe for nearly six centuries and was home, over the course of centuries, to hundreds of thousands of Jews “who were allowed to be Jewish there in a way they weren’t at various points in time anywhere else.” Many Jews arrived before or during the Spanish Inquisition.

This does not mean the Ottoman Empire was overly welcoming. Jews, like other minorities, were subject to a special tax and were officially prohibited from pursuing certain professions or living in certain places.

The Jewish population in Turkey is dwindling now, but “they’re wonderful, lively and dedicated.”

Goodman describes Turkey as a place that has traditionally tolerated Jewish people. The concept of “tolerance” comes from the Enlightenment, specifically John Locke’s 1689 Letter Concerning Toleration.

Tolerance is touted as “one of the great virtues of an enlightened, liberal democracy, an enlightened culture,” Goodman says. “But it’s an ugly word, because it suggests that if you are merely tolerated, you’re not fully participatory. That continues to be a problem for the Jewish community.”

For instance, Goodman notes, Jewish men will don a yarmulka upon entering a synagogue, but they are careful to remove it immediately when leaving. “Being visibly Jewish in that way is just not common.”

Questions of “hospitality,” “tolerance,” and the overlapping traditions among faiths are “what I tried to pick apart with my students.” While in Turkey, the students learned about Muslim and Christian Turks as well.

“Turkey has a heterogeneous past,” Goodman says. “It’s not clear what its future will be.”

The class was in Turkey from June 9 to June 25. Students lived in the Boğaziçi University dormitories. The university’s rector provided in-kind contributions to the program by giving the students free room and board.

The rector is very open to all kinds of new research and scholarship and wants to promote the study of the Jewish population in Istanbul in particular. Goodman plans to do another global seminar in summer 2016. The students who went this year are majoring in international affairs, Jewish Studies, religious studies and political science.

“For me, this was a wonderful inaugural event in my directorship (in Jewish Studies). What I really want to do in the Jewish Studies Program is … to educate people and inspire them to learn about the incredibly wide parameters of Jewish life all over the world.”

“To learn about Judaism through the past and present of Jewish life and its symbols in a Muslim land is to learn things I never knew before, and I believe that’s true for my students as well.”

To read a Turkish newspaper’s coverage of the �鶹��Ѱ��global seminar, click here.

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Meet Alexis Aaeng, Major in Jewish Studies

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:22:47 +0000

Meet Alexis Aaeng, Major in Jewish Studies Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/28/2015 - 13:22

Alexis Aaeng, double major in Jewish Studies and History, comes to the �鶹��Ѱ��community and the Program in Jewish Studies from Fort Collins, Colorado. Alexis was a recipient of the 2014-15 Barry and Sue Baer Undergraduate Scholarship, an award granted to our most promising Jewish Studies students. She was initially drawn toward the Program in Jewish Studies because of the diversity of our classes and faculty. Alexis states, "I love how much of a community the program is. I have never felt this connected to a field of study, let alone to the individuals who are teaching courses on such fascinating subjects. I am so grateful for the support and kindness that all of the faculty in Jewish Studies show their students. In addition, there is a multitude of opportunities to be had through this program."

Beginning this semester, Alexis will be interning with the CU-Archives through the Internship in Jewish Studies. She will be working in the Post-Holocaust American Judaism Archive and hopes that this experience will give her the necessary skills to be an effective and successful historian. After graduating in 2016, Alexis hopes to continue pursuing Jewish Studies scholarship and eventually to work toward a university position teaching Jewish Studies.

Alexis is also an active member of the Jewish Studies Student Advisory Board and is also highly involved with CU's student-run radio station, Radio 1190. She hosts a radio show every Thursday night at 7:00PM called Historics.

For students interested in majoring or minoring in Jewish Studies, Alexis suggests "attending events and getting to know your professors. The individuals involved in the program are some of the most intelligent and kindest people I have encountered on this campus."

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Meet David Coons, Major in Jewish Studies

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:43:35 +0000

Meet David Coons, Major in Jewish Studies Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 01/21/2015 - 16:43

David Coons joins the �鶹��Ѱ��Boulder community from Englewood, CO, and is a double major in Jewish Studies and Studio Art, emphasizing in Photography and Digital Art.

David is currently studying abroad in Glasgow, Scotland for the Spring 2015 semester. During his study abroad, he will be taking Jewish Studies courses in the Theology and Religious Studies Program at the University of Glasgow, as well as Studio Art courses at the Glasgow School of Art. On expanding his Jewish Studies education globally, David says, "I'm excited to see how Jewish Studies is taught in another country and what perspectives will be brought to the table as there is a large population of international students in the program."

Throughout his �鶹��Ѱ��career, David has been highly involved in Jewish Studies. Through the Internship in Jewish Studies course, David completed an internship with the Colorado Agency for Jewish Education in Denver, CO. He notes that this opportunity allowed him to experience working in the Jewish community and in a non-profit organization, providing him with work experience, programming and organizational skills, and professional development. David states, "The internship program connected me to the community in which I grew up, allowing me to present myself in a professional manner beyond my personal connection to the community." When asked about what drew him to Jewish Studies, David states, "As I grew up in a strong Jewish community and household, I was always interested in Judaism, its lessons, history, people, and culture. Naturally, when I entered college, I wished to continue this connection which the Program in Jewish Studies was able to provide and nurture. In this program, I am able to take courses that allow me to immerse myself in a vast variety of topics." In addition to his involvement in Jewish Studies, David has been highly active in �鶹��Ѱ��Boulder's Hillel where he served as Co-President this past year prior to going abroad.

An excellent student, this year David was nominated and selected to receive the prestigious Katherine J. Lamont Scholarship, an award presented to only 12 students in the College of Arts and Sciences each year.

For students interested in majoring or minoring in Jewish Studies, David suggests to take one of the Program's courses, many of which fulfill core requirements. "The Program in Jewish Studies provides a wide array of interesting, thought-provoking, and fun courses taught by many amazing professors from a variety of backgrounds. This diversity something that I feel is quite unique to this program."

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Meet Chelsea Miller, Jewish Studies' 2014 Valedictorian

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:35:39 +0000

Meet Chelsea Miller, Jewish Studies' 2014 Valedictorian Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/23/2014 - 11:35

Chelsea Miller graduated Jewish Studies Valedictorian in 2014, earning a Minor in Jewish Studies in addition to a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and a certificate in Digital Arts and Media. She is currently the Community Coordinator for Gay Men's Health Crisis in Manhattan as part of the AVODAH fellowship in New York. Chelsea received highest honors, Summa Cum Laude, for her honors thesis 'Protesting to Pray : A critical case study of how Women of the Wall used Jewish male garments and other strategies to influence Israel's policies'. The transnational organization Women of the Wall has read her paper, and they have chosen to archive it!

Chelsea first joined the Program in Jewish Studies because of her interest in Judaism as a religion, but soon became curious about genocide studies, the Holocaust, and the intersection of religion and gender, all topics she was able to explore in Jewish Studies courses. While at CU, Chelsea served on the Jewish Studies Student Advisory Board in order to help develop the interdisciplinary nature of the program's coursework and create welcoming community gatherings. Chelsea also participated in �鶹��Ѱ��in D.C., interning for Women's Action for New Directions and the Women's Legislators Lobby in Washington, DC.

For students considering majoring or minoring in Jewish Studies, Chelsea states, "The Program in Jewish Studies persuaded me to completely give my life to social justice. Jewish Studies has given me not only an education, but has taught me the value of justice and equality. Even if you are not a Jewish student, this program is so much more than a supplement to religious studies. For me, it is genocide studies, gender studies, and peace conflict studies."

Check out Chelsea's new blog, "The Romantic Feminist"!

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